Our mission is to provide industry with the best fatigue knowledge based on years of experience across a wide range of markets through on-site services using technical consultants, fatigue training classes and on-the-job fatigue training for engineers and managers.

These services embrace CAE and Test activities and the integration of both of these with product development process and targets.

Our goal is to delight our clients, delivering value and positive business experience on a win-win basis.

If you are a long serving fatigue expert and enjoy the challenge of working in the durability life prediction world, then we invite you to contact us as we are interested in building a network of consultants.

E-mail us at hr@fatigue-expert.com with a copy of your resume / CV and a description of why you want to join our Fatigue Expert team together with your contact details and expected hourly / day rates of remuneration.

Current vacancies

None at present.

However speculative approaches are always considered, so please send us an e-mail to hr@fatigue-expert.com and promise to respond to let you know if we have any job openings for you.

Dr Lewis Lack C.Eng, MIMechE

Dr Lack formed FATIGUE-EXPERT in 2006 after a long career in Fatigue, Structural Integrity, Measurement and Testing across a wide range of industries globally.
After his research into Vertical Axis Wind Turbines at Reading University in the early 1980s and materials research at Sheffield University, he worked as a consultant fatigue engineer for nCode International, a developer of fatigue analysis and measurement software tools.  During this period he developed the connection between Fatigue modeling and Finite Element tools, enabling Fatigue analysis to be used in the early development of products to optimise fatigue performance before expensive testing was carried out.  He managed the business partner relationship to deliver this, PDA Engineering who launched P/Fatigue in the early 1990s.

Since FATIGUE-EXPERT was setup, he has worked on a wide range of fatigue problems, both in design and failure analysis.  His background in materials means he is well equipped to solve fatigue problems as these typically involve consideration of loading, materials selection, manufacturing process and operation.  He ran a fatigue test lab for a number of years as well so is well aware of materials characterization methods.

Dr Lack has delivered fatigue training for stress analysts as well as fatigue test engineers and this is part of what Fatigue-Expert offers today.   

Dr Natalia Ermolaeva MSc in Struct./Mech. Eng

Natalia Ermolaeva graduated cum laude from Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute (currently Saint Petersburg State Marine Technical University, Russia) as a structural/mechanical engineer (MSc), where she also received a PhD degree in 1990 in the field of fatigue of structures and metallic materials for shipbuilding. While working as a senior researcher in Russian Academy of Science, she was chosen to take a part in scientific exchange program at Ford Motor Company and University of Michigan-Dearborn (USA) in 1998. Since 1999, Natalia worked in The Netherlands and in the U.K., initially at Delft University of Technology, and from 2003 and until recently at Allseas Engineering. The last position she held at the company was Principal R&D Engineer and Expertise Group (Material) Leader at the Innovations Department.
Natalia has an experience in fatigue assessment of marine and offshore structures (including tubular joints) supported by the vast theoretical knowledge, real-time measurements, numerical and experimental research she performed and/or supervised. Through her career, Natalia has authored and co-authored 40+ publications. She successfully serves as a reviewer for many international scientific journals (International Journal of Fatigue, Engineering Failure Analysis, Marine Structures, and others), and as an evaluator for European Research Council calls’ proposals.
Natalia has prepared and given a course on fatigue to structural engineers at Allseas for the last six years. She has a pleasure to offer the course now for those who are interested in structural fatigue outside the company, in addition to any consultancy work within the frame of her expertise. 

Dr Eng. Paula van Lieshout